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Former Protea named as match-fixer – Yahoo7: Tsolekile, who played the last of his three Tests against England at Port Elizabeth in 2004, received a 12-year ban for “contriving to fix a match or matches” in the 2015 Twenty20 domestic competition, the board said in a statement. Pumelela Matshikwe …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

36 illegal immigrants appear in Free State court: “[The] investigation also revealed that the group was possibly being taken to Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape where they were going to be sold for cheap labour. Allegations are that they were going to look for work,” Mbambo said. The case was …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Harry Titcombe obituary: Stewart was an artist, and in 1948 he was offered work at an advertising agency in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, so the family moved there. Harry took his collection with him and began a new and rather more exotic one. Despite finding the apartheid regime …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

S Africa ban Tsolekile, three others for fixing attempt: Tsolekile, who played the last of his three tests against England at Port Elizabeth in 2004, received a 12-year ban for “contriving to fix a match or matches” in the 2015 Twenty20 domestic competition, the board said in a statement. Pumelela Matshikwe …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

S.African Voters Cast Their Ballots For Change: The opposition Democratic Alliance — crudely slurred by the government as the party of whites — attracted enough ANC defectors to become the biggest party in three cities, including Port Elizabeth and Pretoria, the seat of the executive branch.
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

The ‘clever blacks’ have indeed spoken: The ANC took 89 seats. The ANC also lost its majority in the business capital Johannesburg, and, most humiliatingly, in Port Elizabeth, which is officially known as Nelson Mandela Bay in honour of the late former ANC leader, South African president and …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Hurricanes worthy champs, and the Super Rugby format is worth sticking with for 2017: The curve ball in all this is a little closer to home for both the Stormers and Lions. The Port Elizabeth-based EP Kings, the commercial arm of Eastern Province Rugby and holders of the Southern Kings’ licence to participate in Super Rugby, was last week …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Dr M’s Umno 2.0 has ruling party in its crosshairs: In Port Elizabeth, the expected winner from the DA party is a white man in a predominantly black electorate, which was at the forefront of the anti-apartheid movement. Twenty-two years after the end of apartheid, South African blacks are now voting on …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

OPINION: Sharp-tongued voters give ruling ANC stiff rebuke: And they have done so with a sharp tongue, offering a stiff rebuke to the ANC in working-class “black township” areas such as Mamelodi in the capital, Tshwane, and Motherwell in Port Elizabeth. In ward 21 in Mabopane, in the north-western part of …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

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